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TIL over the past 30 years, selective breeding has improved the flavor of Brussels sprouts, resulting in less bitter tasting varieties. Brussels sprouts really did taste different back in the day.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 12:13AM by woolsprout
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TIL The Green Bay Packers (NFL) is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 12:08AM by anon210202
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TIL that in the twenties, the Weimar Republic tried to cancel the nazis in Germany. They shut down more than 99 nazi newspapers, and even Hitler was banned from speaking in several german states from 1925-27.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 02:06AM by Wooden_Potential_699
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TIL that the leader of the Crips, Stanley Williams, lived a double life where during the day, he was an anti-gang youth counselor, and at night acted as the overboss of the Crips, committing violent gang crimes against the Bloods
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 05:06AM by ponkytoe
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TIL Freud smoked about 20 cigars a day and was not convinced that cigars were linked to his heart problems. He eventually got oral cancer, suffered attacks of “tobacco angina”, or heart palpitations, whenever he smoked, and died with removed jaw
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 05:33AM by ubcstaffer123
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TIL that dental cavities are usually filled with a mercury-based alloy. Dental offices typically disposed of the excess by pouring it down the drain, a practice that was only outlawed in the United States in 2017.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 05:36AM by GetYerHandOffMyPenis
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TIL that sharks do not produce sounds. Out of the 400-500 species, no organ capable of producing sound has ever been found.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 12:20PM by marituci
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TIL in 1900 three lighthouse keepers vanished without a trace from a lighthouse on a Scottish island
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 02:18AM by fhtagnfhtagn
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TIL That the deadliest blizzard in history occurred in Iran in 1972. In some places over 25 feet of snow fell.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 10:28AM by IveHadEnoughThankYou
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TIL During King Louis XIV reign he popularized pairing salt with pepper since he disliked dishes with overwhelming flavors, and pepper was the only spice that complemented salt and didn't dominate the taste.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 05:16PM by UndyingCorn
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TIL Catherine Hickland married David Hasselhoff while he was playing the character Michael Knight in Knight Rider. After they divorced, she married a man whose actual name is Michael Knight.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 12:52PM by Romboteryx
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TIL The government of Switzerland was involved in Mass Surveillance of its own citizens.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 04:52PM by Sensitive-Impact-804
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TIL that, of the 50 oldest people on the planet, only ONE of them is a male.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 09:02PM by MartyMcFly7
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TIL that when Miss Saigon premiered, the wedding song was all nonsense syllables, which were not replaced with real Vietnamese lyrics until twenty five years later
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 07:54PM by KodairaLuggage
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TIL the placenta develops from cells that originate from the embryo, and has the same DNA as the fetus. So eating the placenta is technically eating parts of the baby.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 07:48PM by dragoon7201
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TIL that researchers believe that up to 65% of people with Klinefelter syndrome (XXY chromosomes) are never diagnosed. The condition usually isn't diagnosed until puberty or adulthood because of how mild the symptoms are.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 10:38PM by Gary_the_mememachine
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TIL: after rejecting a scholarship offer to Harvard at age 16 in 1931, Orson Welles travelled to Europe. While in Dublin, he walked into a theatre and claimed he was a broadway star. The manager, impressed by his audition and brashness, gave him work, and that same year, Welles made his stage debut.
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Submitted January 12, 2024 at 10:23PM by waitingforthesun92
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TIL that the distance driven by the fastest cars at the 24 hours of Le Mans auto race is 500 miles greater than the distance from New York to Los Angeles.
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Submitted January 13, 2024 at 12:03AM by temporalwanderer
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